Globalization of Automobile Industry

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction - 1 -

2. Information Gathering - 2 -

2.1 Description of the methods used - 2 -
2.2 Sources and reasons for their use - 2 -

3. Analysis - 3 -

3.1 The Concept of Globalisation - 3 -
3.2 Globalisation of the   Chinese Automotive Industry - 4 -
3.3 Effects of Globalisation - 5 -
3.3.1 government policies - 5 -
3.3.2 Key issues in the value chain - 5 -
I.   Manufacturers - 7 -
II. Suppliers - 9 -
III.Technological Capabilities - 9 -
IV Sales and Distribution networks - 11 -
3.3.3 Future - 6 -

5. Bibliography - 11 -

6. Appendices - 11 -

1. Introduction

Twenty-five years ago, driving German cars, listening to Japanese hi-fis, eating French food, wearing Italian clothes would be the wildest dream beyond imagination for most Chinese.
Now I am studying for ACCA exam in London, one of the cosmopolitan cities to obtain a global recognised qualification for my future career development.
For my choice of a topic which I was particularly interested in is “The identification of the effects of globalisation on an industry of your choice”
Globalisation is a new reality, an economic, political and socio-cultural phenomenon which has an increasing impact on the way enterprises function whether at the local or global level. Globalisation is also now a hotly debated subject with its myriad of pro-globalisation supports and anti-globalisation opponents.
On a small scale, some of the positive effects that I personally benefit from are technology, chat on the internet to my family on the other side of the world.
I chose China’s automotive industry to specify my topic as in the past ten years, the production of motor vehicles in China has been an average annual growth rate of 15 percent, compared to a world average of 1.5 percent in the same period. China produced 4.4 million vehicles in 2003(OICA, 2004) with a growth of 35 percent from 2002, becoming the fourth largest vehicle automobile market in the world, after... [continues]

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